Transcript Welcome to AP World History!!!

Welcome to AP World History!!!
Mr. Trainor
Website: mrtrainor.sharepoint.com
[email protected]
Text: The Earth and Its Peoples (Fifth
Edition), Bulliet
General Learning Objectives of the
Course:
• Understand the forces of continuity and change
• Develop the skills needed to assess a diversity of interpretations
• Analyze primary source documents
• Understand the major social, political, cultural movements/events in
World History
• Understand how the events of the past impact current
issues/problems
• Development of listening, speaking, and organizational skills in order
to improve comprehension, communication and time management.
• Develop skills needed to construct and evaluate
Course Overview
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September
Scientific Revolution
Enlightenment
American Revolution (Declaration of
Independence)
• French Revolution (causes and 1st phase)
October
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Radicalization of the French Revolution
Napoleon
Congress of Vienna
Liberal and Conservatism
Nationalism
Latin American Independence as extension of
Enlightenment and French Revolution
Haitian Revolution
Industrial Revolution; changes in world trade patterns
Demographic changes
Marxism
November
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19th Century Political History:
England: Reform Movement; Irish Famine
Women’s Emancipation movements
Unification of Italy and Germany
The “New Imperialism”
December
• Nonwestern World
• Russian and Ottoman Empires
• Africa: Berlin Conference; “scramble for Africa”; Boer War;
Arab merchants and the east African slave trade
• Resistance: Battle of Khartoum (1885); Ashanti resistance
movements;
• India: Mughal India (brief review), Sepoy Rebellion
• Compare British and French colonial rule in Asia and Africa
• China: Qing dynasty (brief review), Opium War, Taiping
Rebellion, Empress Dowager Cixi, Open Door Policy, Boxer
Rebellion
• Japan: Review Tokugawa Regime; Meiji Restoration;
expansion
• Prelude to World War I
• World War I
January
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January
World War I
Treaty of Versailles
Pros and Cons of the Treaty
Post World War I changes in geography
Responsibility for the War
Russian Revolution 1905 and 1917